I’m planning to have a surveyor use a GPS to collect precise horizontal coordinates and elevation values for a site plan. Importing an ASCII file of those x-y-z values for use in Sandbox would be an ideal approach, although I could enter them individually if that was the only option available to me.…

You might have a look at Trimble Scan Essentials. Or, if you can create a CSV file with the coordinates, you can use a Point Cloud importer to import the file. Then use SandBox tools or TopoShaper from Fredo6 to create terrain. I prefer Toposhaper for that. Point cloud from CSV file. [Screenshot …

Thanks, Dave. That’s the type of extension I’m looking for. I’ll install now and see how it goes.

So far, none of this makes any sense. I’ve got a .csv file of xyz data and haven’t found a way to bring it into Sketchup yet. Toposhaper might do it, but haven’t been able to figure out how after several hours trying. It seems like this should be a pretty simple process, but after days and days rese…

Did you try the Point Cloud Importer extension to get the points into SketchUp? Share your CSV file so we can take a look and try to help you make sense of it all.

Yup, over and over again. Nothing comes through. Most of my research time has been spent on trying to find documentation on the format of data it will import - deg, min, sec.dec; decimal degrees, etc - with no luck so far. I’m a bit flabbergasted that it’s this difficult to find much documentation o…

[image] tomherrick: After about 15 minutes of searching I haven’t found a way to attach my .csv file to this reply. How big is the CSV file? If less than 15MB, drag and drop it into your next post. Otherwise, upload it to a file sharing service like Dropbox, OneDrive or WeTranfer and post a s…

[image] tomherrick: trying to find documentation on the format of data it will import Just X, Y, and Z values. Distances from 0,0,0. It will take the units from what you’ve set in Model Info or you can choose them during import.

Coords for conversion.txt (4.4 KB)

I’ve received data from a surveyor that includes latitude, longitude and elevation for about 100 points. I am trying to bring these into Sketchup so I don’t have to find some way to convert their distances from 0,0,0.

ID Elev Latitude Longitude 1 112.94 42,24,41.30471 -124,24,54.99305 2 109.84 42,24,40.88129 -124,24,55.07111 3 109.8 42,24,40.88133 -124,24,55.07104 4 129.72 42,24,41.71210 -124,24,52.86705 5 129.78 42,24,41.71132 -124,24,52.86732 6 121.62 42,24,41.52573 -124,24,53.83208 7 121.6 4…

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sWilliams March 6, 2022, 11:47pm 17

tomherrick,
There is a Ruby function to import/manipulate coordinates. You’ll need to reproject the points in UTM (WGS84) first.

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